{"id":72772,"date":"2026-01-30T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illustratorscontest.tapirulan.it\/artwork\/libertys-flop-era\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:35:48","slug":"libertys-flop-era","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/illustratorscontest.tapirulan.it\/en\/artwork\/libertys-flop-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty&#8217;s Flop Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drew this because it\u2019s how America feels to me right now. Liberty is still standing, but she\u2019s dark. The torch is up, but it\u2019s not lighting anything. The idea of freedom is there, yet it feels hollow.<\/p>\n<p>The red background is the country on fire. Everything feels overheated, angry, and unstable. The flag still has the colors of hope and what America claims to stand for, but right now it feels dead weight. It\u2019s there, but it\u2019s not doing anything.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is destroyed in this image. That\u2019s the point. The symbols are still standing, but the spirit behind them feels gone. This is America in its flop era, not ended, just drained and failing to live up to itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drew this because it\u2019s how America feels to me right now. Liberty is still standing, but she\u2019s dark. The torch is up, but it\u2019s not lighting anything. The idea of freedom is there, yet it feels hollow. The red background is the country on fire. Everything feels overheated, angry, and unstable. 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